Improvement in boot-and-shoe soles



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BENJAMIN I). GODFREY, OF `MILFORD, ASSIGNOR TO IVILLIAM CLAFLIN, TRUSTEE OF THE AMERICAN WIRE-QUILTED SOLE ASSOCIATION, OF BOSTON, MASSACHU- sn'rfrs.

Letters Patent No. 111,448,5dated January 31, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOT'AND-SHOE SOLES;

To cc-llrvhom it 'may concer-n:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN D. GODFREY, of Milford, -iu the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement iu the Manufactureot' Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specification, is a descriptioirof my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it..`

My invention may'nbelstated as an improvement upon that patented under the number 64,587, dated May 7,1867,1t .G`.'V. Sheield and N. l?. Coburn, said patented invention consisting in lling the wearing surface of leather with metallic pins of uniform diameter, cut oi flush with said surface, and illustrated in its application to a tap-sole of. solid leather for a boot or shoe. Y

My invention has for its object the utilization of splits and thin pieces of leather, such as are now often thrown away or burned, or are sold at a I ow price to be ground up to make a kind of pasteboard known as 4leatln-er-board.

I utilize such waste, refuse, or inferior leather by making it into soles, either entire soles or tap-soles, to be applied upon outer soles of solid leather, thereby producing, at a greatly reduced cost, soles or taps which will wear equal to or perhaps better than'solid leather soles.

In my invention I take several thin layers of leather, and, with or without uniting them by cement, I drive through them sections of wire, as explained in the said patent to Sheffield and Coburn, the leather being preferablylirst cut to the shape of the sole or of the tap which it is desired to produce.v

These sections of wire are driven close together all over the surface ofthe sole or tapfwhere wear cornes, leaving a margin about the edge suicient to receive the fastenings by which the sole is secured to the npper and to the inner sole, or by which the tap-sole is secured to the main sole, said fastenings being nails, screws, pegs, or stitches, as may be desired.

My invention, then, may be lsaid to consist in a solcora tap-sole, as a new article of manufacture, when made up of several layers of thin leather, (generally splits, shavings, or other cheap thin leather,)- when .united and solidified in that portionknowu as the tread, and upon which the wear comes, by having driven into and through the layers, or all of them but the one which comes innermost, short sections of wire, said sections being located near each other, as seen in the drawing, and being cut olush or smooth with the wearing surface, y

An embodiment of inyiuvention is illustrated in thel drawing, in which- Figure l is a plan of an entire outer sole; and

' Figure .2 is a plan of a tap-sole.

Figure 3 is a cross-section taken through the cntirc sole, showing the sections of wire as driven entirelyY through all the layers; and

Figure 4 is a cross-scctioutakcn through'` thc tapsole, showing the sections of wire as driven through all the la yers but the inner one, except the outer row of wires, which is driven through the inner layer to hold it to the rest of the sole before it is attached to a-boot or shoe, and to harden or solidify the solo near its edge so that it will take a goed inish.

Then an entire sole-ismade up of layers of thin leather, as seen in fig. 1, there is no need of the wirc sections in the shank-part of the sole,.as 'that never wears, and th-e heel-part of the sole is covered by a raised heel. Therefore, to put the wire sections through any part of the sole except the tread would merely waste time and'i'naterial. However, the whble of the sole, including shank andv heel, may be' filled with the wire sections like the tread, it' desired.

I claim, as a new article of manufacture- A solc or tap-sole, made of several layers of thin leather, united by short sections of fine wire driven closely together,substantially as shown and dcscribed..- BENJ'. D. GODFREY.

lVitnesses: Y

L. H, Larra/inn. 

